A Chauvin woman who was stabbed to death at a Grand Isle beach Sunday was a generous woman who loved photography and gardening, and did everything she could for her three kids despite being an amputee, her sister-in-law said.
Jennifer Dozier was at the beach near Cypress Lane around 10:30 p.m. Sunday when a fight broke out between her and her boyfriend of nearly two years, Randy Paul Marcel, of Pine Street in Chauvin, police said.
The fight, which witnesses say started over drugs or cigarettes, culminated in Dozier, 34, being stabbed the multiple times in the neck and torso, said Glen Boyd, Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office public information officer.
Marcel left Dozier's 2-year-old son, Gabriel, with his mother's body and left the scene, police said. Marcel was later found in a grassy area three blocks away and arrested.
He was charged with second-degree murder and is
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Nobody ever expected this," she said.
Jennifer Dozier's family is taking donations online at www.gofundme.com/ao0uc0 to help pay for funeral expenses and the care of Gabriel and her other two children, 15-year-old daughter Corrie and 8-year-old son Madison, Tristan Dozier said.
Jennifer Dozier, who was on disability because of a leg amputation after a 2001 car crash, nurtured and cared for her children the best she could, Tristan Dozier said.
"She was very limited to what she could do because she only had one leg. So she struggled, but she did what she could," Tristan Dozier said. She was a good mother. She loved her kids, and they knew that she loved them.
Originally from Mississippi, Jennifer Dozier has lived in Terrebonne Parish for nearly two decades and was known for her hobbies of gardening and photography, Tristan Dozier said.
"She was a good person with the biggest heart of anybody you'd meet. Even when she didn't have anything herself, she'd try to help others before she helped herself. She'd give anybody anything," she